Posted on 08/26/2006 8:54:50 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
It can stop a bullet from an AK-47, shrug off a roadside bomb, and it makes a Hummer look like a chick car.
The $200,000 (U.S.) Gurkha is coming to a road near you — thanks to a King City-based company that is finding itself in demand because of the global war on terror.
"They are pretty awesome machines," says William Whyte, owner of Armet Armored Vehicles Inc., the company that builds the Gurkha. "We've been stopped on roads with people taking pictures and wanting to know what they are."
The Gurkha can go more than 150 kilometres per hour — plenty fast for a military vehicle — and is the highest level of protection you can get next to sitting in a tank, Whyte says. It certainly looks fierce enough.
The squat 8,620 kilogram vehicle looks every bit the ticked-off hedgehog, bristling with testosterone and armour plating.(exerpt)
No, the Maybach is over-compensating. The Bentley is just an expensive toy.
I think the chick would want it just to tailgate smaller cars. It makes those Suburbans and Hummers look mild.
My first impression was, u-g-l-y. But, the more I look at it.....
Or maybe just take all the gas stations in the neighborhood hostage, wait for it to run out of fuel, then go collect the occupants. Sheesh.
Isn't there an old saying about taking a good idea too far?
"It's a car that screams -- "Look at me, I'm an idiot! A really, really rich idiot!" and it only costs a little more than 2006 Bentley Continental Flying Spur List Price: $164,990"
Having a little Gurhka envy, huh?
Sing the lyrics?
Damn, I hate menopause. I used to get a new Hummer about once a month.
Seems like the kind of thing a rapper needs for "cruisin through the hood".
"When a Hummer won't do"
When you're dead?
I gotta get me one of those things!
"Gurkha"
Very appropriate.
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Another possible idea: simply force everybody in the country to move around in a big circle to some place twenty miles down the road so that nobody will know where the stash of dynamite and bomb-making **** is in his neighborhood any longer.....
At 19,000 pounds, it's a compact APC, not even in the same category as a Hummer.
How can any vehicle with tires shrug off a bomb?
Yeah! I'm not a rapper, but I need it for "cruisin through my hood" - quiet, tree-lined, middle-aged, the sidewalks roll up at 9pm - hehehe.
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